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Hello out there! Just letting people know I'm alive. This is something that's been kicking around for a while so, I thought I'd start posting.

This is Luna reborn over and over in different worlds and timelines. It will feature a number of AUs and crossovers.

Important: Before I get spammed for Luna being out of character, it will get there. My first draft started with same old Luna just accepting what was happening but, I thought it would be more interesting to have a fully sane, close minded Luna come to terms with her situation and lose her sanity later.

This will not have consistent updates - it's really more of an 'as it comes to me' project. That said, Harry Potter canon will be chapter 16.

The Hufflepuff

Luna Lovegood is rather surprised by the boy who sits himself across her.

It's been two weeks since she started Hogwarts and while she gets along well with her housemates, she's felt no need to make friends yet alone reach out to other houses. She supposes it could be the Hufflepuff's friendly nature but, if that's the case, she'll simply turn him away and let him know that it's not very polite to assume that she is in need of friends simply because she prefers to do her homework in peace.

"Hey Luna." he greets with entirely too much familiarity.

She closes her book with a soft thump that draws his attention.

She levels him with a deadpan stare and says, "I'd appreciate you not acting like we're friends. I don't know who told you my name or why you want to talk to me, but it's not appreciated. I don't need friends and I don't need some Hufflepuff busybody wasting my time."

He blinks and seems completely taken aback. He stares at her taking in her neat ponytail, her crisp uniform, and even examines her boring, black, messenger bag.

"Er, uh, this has never happened before. Well, of course it's never happened before..." he trails off and seems to be searching for the right words. Luna hopes he'll get on with it. She has an herbology essay to complete and isn't fond of distractions.

"I'm Harry Potter." he says and sticks a hand out for her to shake.

Harry Potter? As in the Boy-Who-Lived? Luna is now very confused. Yes, the boy is a Hufflepuff, but surely he has a great number of friends and admirers. Why would he seeks out a first-year Ravenclaw he's never even met?

She shakes his hand with a large dose of suspicion. Something feels very wrong.

"This may seem a bit strange, but, um, we're old friends. Well, at least, you're my old friend."

She raises an eyebrow at him that clearly questions his sanity. How could she be old friends with someone she's never even met?

"To see the day Luna Lovegood looks at me like I'm insane..." he mumbles.

She arches her eyebrow higher.

"Well, it's like this. We keep meeting up in different lifetimes. Only, it's out of order. This is my seventh life and apparently, your first."

Luna gives him a flat stare. Lifetimes? Is he seriously talking about reincarnation?

"What proof could you possibly give me to prove such a ridiculous claim?"

"Er, I uh, don't really have proof. You always seem to know more than me so I never really considered how you met me the first time."

Well she's a Ravenclaw and he's just a Hufflepuff. If this is true (which she highly doubts) it's no surprise that she would know more than him.

"So you're going to make ridiculous claims about being old friends from previous lifetimes without any proof? Go back to Hufflepuff. I'm a Ravenclaw and I'm not buying into your ridiculous hoax."

"It's not a hoax. You just haven't looped yet!" he exclaims only to be shushed by Madam Pince. He flinches and tries to make himself smaller in his chair. Clearly he's been kicked out of here before.

He carries on in a harried whisper. "Look, I know it's pretty out there, but it's just like all the creatures you and your dad believe in. Just because they can't be seen, doesn't mean it's not there."

"I don't believe in any of the silly creatures my dad makes up. He writes that ridiculous magazine and searches for things that aren't there. I know he's mad but he's my father and I won't have you making fun of him for it."

He looks completely taken aback and Luna vaguely wonders if this is the first lifetime that she hasn't believed in the make believe creatures her father insists are real before pushing the thought from her mind. Of course they aren't real and neither is this ridiculous idea of lifetimes and looping.

"If you don't mind, I'd like to return to my homework."

"Right. I um, right. I'll just, go then. Hey um, Luna? Find me in your next life, ok? Even if we aren't friends now, we're going to be. And I really don't want to spend a lifetime with you hating me."

She gives him a long stare before nodding. "I don't hate you." she says because really, she doesn't. She's annoyed and doesn't believe him but he seems so very sincere and he seems truly relieved at her words.

She doesn't think they'll ever meet again, but Luna makes a mental note that if she ever has a second lifetime, she'll get answers out of him. It's bound to be an interesting story, after all.